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Purpose
The aim of this article is to share ideas about, and examples of, visual representations of library collections.
Design/methodology/approach
The article takes the form of a literature review and opinion.
Findings
Although information visualization appears in the literature as a field of study at least as early as 1981, library catalogs and indexes remain overwhelmingly text‐based.
Originality/value
Since 2010, only about 10 percent of the full‐text, scholarly articles in EBSCO databases with thesaurus term “information visualization” are published in library science journals.
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2013
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